An eastbound Santa Fe piggyback train flies past a trackside pond just west of Leeds, Illinois, on the morning of May 30, 1992. Powering the train is EMD GP50 No. 3811, followed by an A-B-B set of... (more)
Santa Fe (ATSF) GP50, numbered 3810-3854.
Santa Fe 3811 West makes its way into Crozier Canyon from the east under typical monsoon season cloud cover.
Dynamic brakes are whining on this priority westbound as it descends with a CF-7 in tow.
Being a hot westbound the train took the shorter and steeper south track coming down the pass.
I caught this one departing and followed it all the way to San Berdoo that day.